Wed.Nov 26, 2014

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Our Favorite Black Friday Deals for Your Small Business

Up and Running

'Bplans Staff writer Angelique O’Rourke modeling a MacBook Air. We all know that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are great days to pick up deals and get your holiday shopping done. But, what about your small business? It needs a few holiday gifts to get it ready for the New Year. Here are 10 of our favorite deals that will help boost your business this holiday season.

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Announcing availability: SAP Nation

deal architect

'This weekend I emailed preview copies of my new book on the SAP economy to select media around the world. I have attached below the “front matter” for my blog readers – the table of contents and the preface. In.

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Digital Marketing Is A Great Equalizer For Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

'Most technical entrepreneurs cringe when they finally realize that marketing is still king, despite the power of technology, and they are up against competitors who have a hundred times their spending power. Luckily, the digital revolution has been a great equalizer in the marketing world, if used effectively to target the audience, engage the customer, and measure results.

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A Guide To A Safer Office

YoungUpstarts

'AHHHH, OFFICE IS ON FIRE! These are not words one wants to hear when running a workplace. Like tumbling profits or dodgy clients, a flaming workplace tends to get in the way of good business. And it’s not the only safety issue that could befall your workplace. Even in a placid office setting, your staff are at risk of injury, poor ventilation or even something as simple as repetitive strain injury (RSI).

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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The anatomy of a marketing email that drives results

The Next Web

'Janet Choi is the Marketing Manager at Customer.io. Most writing in email marketing is terrible. Experiencing lame email copy can be educational on what not to do and motivate you to aim higher, if anything. But what are some positive techniques used to craft compelling emails? Here’s one simple but powerful method: AIDA, a time-tested copywriting formula that’s been used in marketing and advertising in all types of media for over a century.

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Ecommerce discovery on mobile – no apps?

The Equity Kicker

'It’s been troubling me recently that at first glance the trend towards mobile and the trend within mobile towards apps mitigates against startup ecommerce companies. Amazon is one of the first apps I download whenever I change phone, but it’s the only ecommerce app that I have, and that’s because Amazon is the only place I shop frequently enough to be bothered to download an app.

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One Founder Told Me He Wanted to Overpay His Employees. So We Invested.

Hunter Walker

'When tech reporters start writing their 2014 wrap-ups, my guess is we’re going to see wages and treatment of service professionals as a highlighted theme, especially in reference to the local/on-demand economy platforms. At Homebrew we’re very interested in these industries, which means Satya and I think about these factors not just as moral questions but with an eye towards investment filter.

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Turn Your Biggest Weakness Into Your Biggest Strength

Mike Michalowicz

'You know the standard approach – first, identify your company’s weakness and then do everything you can to fix it. Practice at it relentlessly, feed you team (and yourself) with constant affirmations, do anything you can to dive deep into your weakness and fix it once and for all. If you can’t fix it, then go to Plan B by burying the weakness in hopes that none of your prospects or competitors find out.

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Two reasons to attack critical issues first.

Berkonomics

'There are two reasons to consider reordering your priorities to attack your most critical issues first, before the easiest ones to knock off the list. First, you are fresher at the start of a day, and your best efforts should come when you are best prepared to address these issues. Remember how easy it is to put off those final decisions at the end of a tiring and long day?

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Biotech Biz Bootstraps

The Entrepreneurial Mind

'The Entrepreneurial Mind : Shawn Glinter, founder of Nanoferix, talks about his newest venture, which sees him bootstrapping by utilizing a virtual team to cut down on overhead while maximizing the talent pool. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post Biotech Biz Bootstraps appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Work Simply

Duct Tape Marketing

'Work Simply written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Carson Tate. photo credit: garryknight via photopin cc. Routine, process, to-do and task lists – that’s how we get stuff done right? Turns out the most productive individuals all have one thing in common and that’s a system.

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Why Two CEOs Could Be Better Than One

YoungUpstarts

'“A jack of all trades and a master of none” is an expression that describes people who are good at things, but maybe not experts at most of them. Think about what it means to manage a huge corporation. Think about the major divisions within a corporation. It becomes impossible to master all of those, which is one of the arguments for having two CEOs.

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